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First person: Ruth’s surrendered life

May 18, 2025

“Don’t plead with me to abandon you or to return and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live,

First person: Celebrating the people you serve, love

May 17, 2025

One of the joys of pastoring is celebrating the milestone achievements of the people you serve and love.

Faith, funerals and foxhounds: How one bivocational pastor ministers in times of grief

May 16, 2025

Those who know Rusty Walton best might say that this bivocational pastor, who also helps run a funeral home, is “dead serious” about ministry.

Launchpad: ‘Celebrate next’ with congregational multiplication strategies

May 15, 2025

The answer to the growth dilemma is obvious. When it is shared with congregations, they often reject it in favor of doing things to help existing congregations remain or become vital and vibrant.

Jubilee Trading Company touches world with faith-centered mission

May 14, 2025

Stephanie Edwards navigates rows of tall, unfinished wooden shelves, touching the world with each reach into one of the hundreds of cardboard boxes filled with exotic goods.

First person: Confessions of a first-year pastor

May 13, 2025

As I’ve reflected on the first year of shepherding my congregation, here are four confessions that in the Lord’s kindness may benefit every pastor, minister, leader, and lay person.

Georgia, New Hampshire churches build partnership around missions

May 12, 2025

Building relationships across state lines and serving as one family is what Bethlehem Baptist Church in Clarksville and Emmaus Church in Manchester, N.H., have been doing together for the past four years.